The climate on the Seychelles

Climate zone: tropics

High humidity and hot temperatures make the weather on the Seychelles at times pleasant but also tropical humid. It is warm to hot all year round and invites to bathe at average water temperatures of 28 degrees. Dued to the lesser rain the best time for traveling is from February to August. Most precipitation decrease from December to January.

Long-term development of temperatures from 1997 - 2021

In contrast to single record values, a long-term development cannot simply be brought about by all weather stations in the country. Both the number and the locations are constantly changing. A simply calculated average value would give a falsified result. If several measuring stations in particularly cold mountain or coastal regions are added in one year, the average would already decrease as a result of this alone. If a station fails during the summer or winter months, it does not provide any values and falsifies the average again. The subsequent long-term development was therefore reduced to only 1 measuring points in order to have actually comparable data over as long a period as possible.

In the years 1997 to 2021 there were only these 1 weather stations in the whole country, which reported continuous temperature values (Victoriaort Mahe). From these weather reports we have created a long-term development that shows the monthly average temperatures. The hottest month in this entire period was April 2013 with 29.3 °C. July 2004 was the coldest month with an average temperature of 25.6 °C.

The average annual temperature was about 27.2 °C in the years after 1997 and about 27.6 °C in the last years before 2021. It has therefore increased only slightly by about 0.4 °C over the past 25 years. This trend only applies to the selected 1 weather stations on the Seychelles. A considerably more comprehensive evaluation of the global warming has been provided separately.



Data basis: German Weather Service, individual values averaged and supplemented by own elements.